The Library System also provides in-person and web-based services for those that publish such as:

Help Getting Started with DigitalCommons

Author Addendums to Maintain Copyright

Workshops on topics such as Research Dissemination, Author's Rights, NIH Policy Compliance, and Copyright

Consultations in the areas of Self-Archiving

If you have comments, suggestions, or would like more information about these topics or library services, please direct them to the feedback box below.

Thank you,

The WSULS Scholarly Communications Team

What is Scholarly Communications?

Scholarly Communication expands on the field of scholarly publishing to incorporate many aspects of the information life-cycle in the academic enterprise. Scholarly Communication is the formal and informal networks used by scholars and researchers to:

Develop ideas

Exchange information

Build and mine data

Certify research

Publish findings

Disseminate results

Preserve Outputs

While traditionally providing access to published findings, more recently libraries have become interested and technologically equipped to assist scholars and researchers in the transformation of scholarly communication by providing alternatives to publishing findings, disseminating results, and preserving outputs with the goal to encourage the development of ideas through open and free exchanges of information.

Got A Project?

DigitalCommons@WayneState can help authors highlight and preserve their publishing scholarship online as well as provide web hosting and management tools for publishing conferences, workshops and open access peer-reviewed journals.

If you're ready to take advantage of one or all of these services, head over to our new project form and we'll get back to you in a couple days.